Publication Standards

Researchers submitting manuscripts should consult the American Psychological Association (APA) ethical standards (www.apa.org).  Authors should declare that the submitting manuscript has been submitted only to this journal and is not published, in the press, or submitted elsewhere. The author(s) of a manuscript accepted for publication  will be asked to assign copyright to Education Reform Journal.

Compliance with ERIC Policy

Completeness: The submissions must be complete; usable as it is presented; contain
sufficient content or labeling for items such as data tables, graphics, and bibliographies;
and in a final form.

• Substantive Merit: The submissions must address the scope areas of the journal in a professional
and/or definitive way.

• Utility/Importance: The submissions must be relevant to current issues in education and
be of interest to the broader education community.

• Education Research: The submissions are original presentations of education data and/or
empirical analysis, literature reviews or summaries of a field, methodological works,
presentations or critiques of theories, or logic models that can guide practice.

Peer Review Process

All submitting manuscripts are assigned to code and double blind peer-review process. The reviewers will make recommendations about worthiness for publication and make suggestions for some changes in need of improvement. The authors will be sent the reviewers’ recommendations anonymously.

At least four weeks will be given to the reviewers for manuscript evaluation.

Publication Frequency

Education Reform Journal is published electronically twice a year. July (Summer) and December (Winter) are planned for next issues.

Open Access Policy

Removing access barriers to the academic literature, the Education Reform Journal adopts world-wide electronic distribution of the peer-reviewed journal and completely free and unrestricted access to it by all scientists, scholars, teachers, students, and other stakeholders.

Galley-proof

The PDF proofs of an accepted manuscript will be sent to authors for checking and correction.

Publication Language

The main official language of the journal is English (British or American).The content must conform to standards of English grammar and understandability. It must be clearly written, grammatically correct, and include  proper capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.

Copyright Notice

This journal is an open-access journal. The authors accept that their manuscript published in the Education Reform Journal® can be accessed by readers through open-access policy. And they can not demand any fee or publication cost for this policy. This journal issues a transfer of copyright agreement that requires author(s) to sign. The author(s) will be responsible for ensuring that all authors are identified on the copyright agreement and written permission by letter or e-mail from each author to sign the copyright agreement.

Creative Commons Licence

As of 2024, Education Reform Journal uses CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike)

Anti-Plagiarism Approach 

Education Reform Journal adopts zero tolerance policy for plagiarism. Maximum efforts are made to preserve scholarly and scientific integrity.

Turnitin® Plagiarism Software will be used for each submitting manuscript before the start of the peer-review process and possible evaluation by editorial office of the journal.

Before submitting a manuscript, authors are advised to check their manuscripts for APA Ethics Code Standard 8.11, Plagiarism.

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party. The copyediting stage is intended to improve the flow, clarity, grammar, wording, and formatting of the article. It represents the last chance for the author to make any substantial changes to the text because the next stage is restricted to typos and formatting corrections. The file to be copyedited is in Word format and therefore can easily be edited like a word processing document. 

Copyediting Systems

Microsoft Word's Track Changes Under Tools in the menu bar, the feature Track Changes enables the copy editor to make insertions (text appears in color) and deletions (text appears crossed out in color or in the margins as deleted). The copy editor can posit queries to both the author (Author Queries) and to the editor (Editor Queries) by inserting these queries in square brackets. The copyedited version is then uploaded, and the editor is notified. The editor then reviews the text and notifies the author. The editor and author should leave those changes with which they are satisfied. If further changes are necessary, the editor and author can make changes to the initial insertions or deletions, as well as make new insertions or deletions elsewhere in the text. Authors and editors should respond to each of the queries addressed to them, with responses placed inside the square brackets. After the text has been reviewed by the editor and author, the copy editor will make a final pass over the text accepting the changes in preparation for the layout and galley stage. 

An Illustration of an Electronic Revision

1. Initial copyedit. The journal copy editor will edit the text to improve flow, clarity, grammar, wording, and formatting, as well as including author queries as necessary. Once the initial edit is complete, the copy editor will upload the revised document through the journal Web site and notify the author that the edited manuscript is available for review.

2. Author copyedit. Before making dramatic departures from the structure and organization of the edited manuscript, authors must check in with the editors who are co-chairing the piece. Authors should accept/reject any changes made during the initial copyediting, as appropriate, and respond to all author queries. When finished with the revisions, authors should rename the file and upload the revised document through the journal Web site as directed.

3. Final copyedit. The journal copy editor will verify changes made by the author and incorporate the responses to the author queries to create a final manuscript. When finished, the copy editor will upload the final document through the journal Web site and alert the layout editor to complete formatting